The Public Programme at A. M. Qattan Foundation in collaboration with Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, would like to invite performers to apply for the project Everyday Dance in Everyday Spaces (EDES), overseen by curator Samar Haddad King, that will take place between 22nd May – 9th December 2017. EDES is a series of performances in

I first met Samar [Haddad King, Artistic Director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre] at the audition for bound in Palestine in 2014. I was shocked by the number of males auditioning for the piece, but not females, usually it’s the opposite. I thought to myself, what is going on in the Palestinian dance scene? Where

This is the time of year in Palestine when contemporary dance companies from around the world come to participate in the Ramallah Contemporary Dance Festival. The festival is part of a network of contemporary dance festivals that for the past five years have taken place in Lebanon, Syria*, Jordan, and Palestine. YSDT has had the